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Neville Brown - Cosmic Threats: A Planetary Response - 9781845197704 - V9781845197704
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Cosmic Threats: A Planetary Response

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Description for Cosmic Threats: A Planetary Response Hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JPS; JWK; RNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
This book calls for the progressive creation of supra-national institutions intended to protect life on Earth against natural threats, be these terrestrial (pandemics, super-volcanoes, major earthquakes.) or celestial (comets, asteroids, meteor storms). The protection proffered would need to be pre-emptive though also responsive, reducing the number of adverse events but also their specific consequences. Rancid though the world scene currently looks, this may actually be a good time to look towards a planetary security programme that can build up over a century or more. It would need special international institutions that are sufficiently integrated to cope with the celestial and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Brighton, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845197704
SKU
V9781845197704
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Neville Brown
Neville Brown has authored twenty books or major reports, including The Future of Air Power (1986). With the award-winning Future Global Challenge (1977) he began to give economic, social and ecological factors salience in the quest for a peaceable world. This thrust continued with New Strategy Through Space (1990) through to Global Instability and Strategic Crisis (2004) and History ... Read more

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